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Block 3 – Get Engaged!

In This Newsletter:

Thoughts from the Director: Get Engaged!
Block 3 Arts Opportunities
Finding Events
Rui’s Reflections: Paraproffing – Why and How?
Keep in Touch!

Kiara Butts ’23 throws a wedding funeral for the final project of her Advanced Design/Installation course (DA304).

Thoughts from the Director: Get Engaged!

The Arts at CC is more than just an office; it is an ethos. It seeks to make the arts an integral part of all members of our community, by amplifying the important work being done with the arts within the academic mission of the college.

But what does that mean? What is academic engagement in the arts?

There are a variety of ways this unfolds, both historically and presently at the college. We’re most interested in how it works moving forward. CC President L. Song Richardson puts it best: “As we think about how we can do what we do better, we have an incredible opportunity to stand as a model for the role of the arts in the liberal arts experience.”

Therefore, we’re opening the doors to explore the breadth and diversity of our CC community, to share case studies on successful collaborations, desires, and hopes for greater arts integration into the curriculum.

Starting November 10, The Arts at CC and the FAC will host a series of “Third Wednesday” gatherings each block focused on the impact and integration of the arts throughout our campus. This first gathering will take place at 3:30 in the Taste Restaurant space in the FAC.

These convenings will be informal opportunities to listen, learn, and brainstorm. They will inform our plans and efforts for the 2022-23 academic year, increase familiarity and relationship building with the FAC, foster new initiatives, and further stimulate a culture of arts-based pedagogy and immersion for our campus.

Come join us. Get engaged!

Sincerely,

Ryan Raul Bañagale

Director of The Arts at CC

Associate Professor, Music

Academic Engagement Interest Form

Nic Santucci ’22 collaborates on a class project in Topics in Sculpture: Expanding Fields (AS218).

Arts at CC Calendar

Block 3 Arts Events & Opportunities

Week 1:

10/29 @ 3 p.m: “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” fall musical (Packard Hall)

10/29 @ 5:30 p.m: Hallo-Qween LGBTQIA+ Trunk event (Hillside Community Center)

10/30 @ 7:30 p.m: Cleo Parker Robinson Dance (Fine Arts Center Mainstage)

10/31 @ 3 p.m: “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” fall musical (Packard Hall)

Week 2:

11/2 @ 1:30 p.m: “Estoy Acá (Mangui Fi)” film screening (Max Kade Theatre)

11/2 @ 5-7 p.m: Día de Los Muertos celebration (Fine Arts Center)

11/2 @ 5 p.m: Dot Devota – Visiting Writers Series (Zoom)

11/4 @ 6 p.m: Roundtable conversation with artist Ronny Quevedo (Fine Arts Center)

11/4 @ 7:15 p.m: “Ma Belle, Ma Beauty” film screening and Q&A (Cornerstone Screening Room)

11/4 @ 7:30 p.m: “Music Without Borders – Transcontinental New Music Ensemble” (Packard Hall)

11/5 @ 12:30 p.m: “Directing Actors Outside the Script” with Marion Hill (Cornerstone Studio C)

11/5 @ 12:30 p.m: Fall Senior Music Capstone Presentations (Packard Hall)

11/5-7 @ 7:30 p.m: “Silence” theatre production (Cornerstone Norberg Studio)

11/6 @7 p.m: Celecia K-Dance Workshop (Cossitt Gym)

Week 3:

11/8 @ 8 p.m: SOCC concert with Slow Pulp (Bemis Hall)

11/9 @ 6 p.m: “Connections, Belonging, and Indigenous Identity in Museum Spaces” (Cornerstone Screening Room)

11/10 @ 12:15 p.m: Music at Midday (Packard Hall)

1/10 @ 3:30 p.m.: Arts Academic Engagement Convening (FAC Taste Restaurant Space)

11/11 @ 3:30 p.m: Teach-in on Afghanistan & Art in Solidarity (Cornerstone Screening Room)

11/11-13 @ 7 p.m: Dance Workshop (Armstrong Hall)

11/11-13 @ 7:30 p.m: “Silence” theatre production (Cornerstone Norberg Studio)

11/12 @ 3:30 p.m: Concert with The Reminders and Dr. Aharony’s Experimental Music students at Independent Records (CC Mobile Arts @ 195 N. Academy Blvd.)

11/12 @ 7 p.m: Ellement a cappella concert (Location TBD)

11/14 @ 7 p.m: SpeakEasy Performance (Taylor Theatre)

Week 4:

11/15 @ 9 p.m: TWIT – Theatre Workshop Improv Troupe (Taylor Theatre)

11/16 @ 1 p.m: Art Department Open House (Locations TBD)

11/16 @ 3 p.m: Live from Packard Hall (Packard Hall)

11/16 @ 7:30 p.m: CC Concert Band Concert (Cornerstone Celeste Theatre)

Finding Events

How do you quickly and easily find arts events on campus?

We’re trying to make that easier! Here are two ways:

Follow The Arts at CC on Instagram (@theartsatcc). During #ArtsOctober, we’ve featured a different aspect of our creative community in addition to actively sharing events and opportunities by the many groups, students, faculty, and staff doing creative work across our campus. We encourage you not only to tag us in your own arts-related posts, but also to share posts directly to us so we can feature them on our Instagram Story.

Don’t do Insta? Bookmark our Arts at CC event calendar. This continuously updated feed highlights all arts-related events entered into the campus calendar. Want to make sure your event appears? Ask your venue/Ungerboeck manager to tag “The Arts at CC” under the calendar tab. Don’t understand that last sentence? Just send us an email and we’ll help you out!

Rui’s Reflections: Paraproffing – Why and How?

“So why are you the Arts at CC paraprof?” I get asked this question a lot by friends. I was initially a Mathematical Economics major and later switched to Asian Studies. But art was integral to my experience at CC. Dance Workshop rehearsals and voice lessons provided me with community and solace. Taking the Feminist & Gender Studies course “Discourse of the Veil” with Professor Nadia Guessous in the FAC in conversation with the interdisciplinary Anishinaabekwe artist Rebecca Belmore’s exhibit “Facing the Monumental” was a life-altering learning experience. Not to mention the incredible friendships I forged with talented creative students at CC.

As a student, I was lucky enough to have cultivated art as a habit. Now as a paraprof, I hope to help co-create inclusive art spaces that center care and community, raise critical questions about power, and imagine beyond the limits of our impoverished political reality.

As the writer, activist, and Black feminist adrienne maree brown beautifully said (it’s also the quote on the Mobile Arts truck!): “Art is not neutral. It either upholds or disrupts the status quo, advancing or regressing justice.” In this spirit, we partnered with the community organization Food to Power and CC Mobile Arts in September and brought together four convergence classes for live performances and a panel on “Music, Food, Social Justice”. We invite artists in residence working on the multimedia performance project, “Boy mother / faceless bloom” to engage with students on important questions of mythology, power, and freedom. In partnership with the Pikes Peak Library District and CC Mobile Arts, we supported a series of poetry readings by CC English Professor Nate Marshall from his book “Finna” which celebrates Black vernacular and hope. You see, the Arts at CC is everywhere and for everyone. I look forward to hearing your stories with the arts at CC and beyond!